Drop by Thursday @ 6:30pm EST/5:30pm CST for #RetroView’s annual “Party for the Planet” playlist in honor of #EarthDay2025. Playlist available here (https://tinyurl.com/yn996n2v) + you can pre-game with playlists from 2022 (https://tinyurl.com/bdha6pff), 2023 (https://tinyurl.com/28mmvn3j) & 2024 (https://tinyurl.com/4dazesxu)
Hope to see y’all then
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And finally, almost EGOT-er (just needs a Tony!) Jon Batiste with his take on “What a Wonderful World” (https://youtu.be/9542BuRJq6k?si=4RwY8R-SVfwYOvq7)
#RetroView #JonBatiste #jazz

Louis Armstrong and his famous smile with “When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You” (https://youtu.be/sMPy8uKbZ5k?si=VXXVg5NSpTu24mq8) from his 1955 album “Saint Louis Blues”
#RetroView #LouisArmstrong #jazz

If Peggy Lee’s “It’s a Good Day”(https://youtu.be/1jZL6EEIn5I?si=KN6rhJd42gZ2LXEq) doesn’t put a spring in your step please seek medical attention
#RetroView #PeggyLee #jazz

Wynton Marsalis and his Septet with “Superb Starling” (https://youtu.be/TswMyk14E8M?si=nGoJKLZi3yGigFhm) originally from his 1991 album “Levee Low Moan: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 3” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_koS3ZRhoATxRosjeNNMljTy_lfPisXwHw&si=sNmzBDXtQJHwFHZz)
#RetroView #WyntonMarsalis #jazz

Nat “King” Cole with his rendition of “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home” (https://youtu.be/jUMRFXCU1rU?si=gAD6f2EtZeoXabnf) originally written in 1930, Cole’s version was a Top 10 Hit in the early 1950s. This version was later utilized by Natalie Cole for her 2008 album “Still Unforgettable” as a digital duet with her late father (https://youtu.be/u3tXCb1wjkw?si=Q4_nU13Z-RLfr68H)
#RetroView #NatKingCole #jazz

John Coltrane and his Classic era Quartet with a cover of Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein’s “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise” (https://youtu.be/e57F_Rm3xI4?si=TVna-EfpLvwEkm3w) from his legendary 1962 album “Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard” (https://youtu.be/aa6gNwpt5sY?si=iMmt7RyE6bfMIJkn)
#RetroView #JohnColtrane #jazz

Blue Note jazzmen Kenny Dorham, Cannonball Adderley with the Dorham penned “Blue Spring” (https://youtu.be/fMjsDYhtSZY?si=ljBfd6DMpU-K9Lh-) from their 1959 album of the same name (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyHn3f7-9IUIo0I-4YJhiy7pwYCzdO_JD&si=r2ZP4UPh8aAiqamM) that is heavy on Springtime vibes
#RetroView #KennyDorham #CannonballAdderley #jazz

Japanese jazz duo Hirofumi Asaba and Nobuyuki Yano with a cover of “Up Jumped Spring” (https://youtu.be/F7Oq06i_izA?si=ZgiXapqM6WtDmcjZ), originally by Freddie Hubbard (https://youtu.be/jtyVq8gkJOQ?si=tJCBxDN6z3zrXXCv)
#RetroView #HirofumiAsaba #NobuyukiYano #jazz

You can’t mention Jazz from Brazil without the legendary Astrud Gilberto. Here she is with her rendition of “It Might As Well Be Spring” (https://youtu.be/ZmMxeSzG_RY?si=hRCxPvaALIeB9WV9) from the live album “Stan Getz Meets João & Astrud Gilberto: Live at Carnegie Hall”
#RetroView #AstrudGilberto #jazz

Here’s Brazilian jazz pianist Manoel Leão and his 5Tet with their take (https://youtu.be/qZ0edU0yrBI?si=Jlk3YbCIeiHz4Q-1) on McCoy Tyner’s “Three Flowers” (https://youtu.be/4P6cVQSqTfM?si=kVfBE1pYn4kcGL7-)
#RetroView #ManoelLeao #McCoyTyner #jazz

5 time Grammy award winner Esperanza Spalding with “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (https://youtu.be/TQtXo4tiZxs?si=s83au8tzHHyjxwfx). She’s been busy in recent years, releasing 6 albums since 2021! Her 2024 collaboration with Milton Nascimento “Milton + Esperanza” (https://tinyurl.com/2eb7dc64) was one of my favorite albums of last year
#RetroView #EsperanzaSpalding #jazz

Next is The Gershwin’s “Little Jazz Bird” (https://youtu.be/VuWJzDJOOVY?si=Kx8YAc1KVltnlNIW) from Blossom Dearie’s 1961 album “My Gentleman Friend” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kjt2v_cM6VssRvFiHLwwccnv076DV19hg&si=Niv8DcHSP-0Jmi8_)
#RetroView #BlossomDearie #jazz

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong with their take on “Isn’t This a Lovely Day?” (https://tinyurl.com/u8zfx59c) from their 1956 album “Ella and Louis” (https://tinyurl.com/38nd4p5z) featuring The Oscar Peterson Quartet. For more Ella and Louis check out 2023’s “Duke and Ella, Louis and Duke, Ella and Louis” playlist (https://tinyurl.com/mryc9y9b)
#RetroView #EllaFitzgerald #LouisArmstrong #OscarPeterson #jazz

Miss Lady Day aka Billie Holiday and The Teddy Wilson Orchestra with “April in my Heart” (https://youtu.be/u5xiqUM7n0Q?si=MDmfdq6ajNqdhiMq) not sure why this song never made it onto a non-compilation album since it was recorded in 1938 but it’s lovely nonetheless
#RetroView #BillieHoliday #TeddyWilsonOrchestra #jazz

Sinatra with “A Garden in the Rain” (https://youtu.be/ziQOXOUqyR8?si=sgWYR_94ChpZnOyT) from his not so classic album “Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9fbA-Clsgn2kUB9Nf6jYP3r7CtREJx5g&si=O9XtQnFeIz05fwYm)
#RetroView #FrankSinatra #jazz

Baseball season apparently starts in the spring so here’s (https://youtu.be/eDIH_GH48cg?si=sZG1vSixUNYdqE-k) a lovely little tribute to that from Vince Guaraldi and his Trio from the soundtrack to “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUlF6f9KqtlF1kWYbYN9ta6-GEWvf82PA&si=TxJye9sihonGlFSZ)
#RetroView #VinceGuaraldi #jazz #ThePeanuts